A right-wing think tank has said it will be “expanding its network” into the Labour Party and will announce one of its peers as a patron in the coming weeks.
Speaking at a Labour Party Conference fringe event in Liverpool, Duncan Simpson, executive director of the Adam Smith Institute (ASI), said it had been interested by some of Labour’s new policies.
A Labour MP has called the announcements “concerning” and said the peer – who is yet to be named – should “think twice” about working with the organisation, which does not declare its UK funders and received the lowest possible transparency rating in openDemocracy’s ‘Who funds you?’ project.
